Most Reliable Price Guide

Wdawg

What is the most reliable monthly or bi-monthly publication for coin prices? Right now I usually go with Coins magazine.

SFDukie

The coin dealer newsletter "graysheet" gives bid/ask prices and is one of the most accurate ways to track coin value. Searching the auction sites (ie heritage, teletrade, and ebay) for completed auctions can provide more info. Redbook and the like only are updated once a year, and may not be accurate even when they first come out.
Don
If in doubt, folks here may provide up to date info if asked nicely

xbob

Welcome! Wow there's a lot of new members in the past few days. Cool!

Coin Values is a good magazine. The values they post are retail so they tend to be a little high (so you always feel like you got a good deal ). You can subscribe to CoinWorld and get Values as a supplement or just get Values alone. They have some really good grading articles too.

ms70

I use Coin World Values in general but for something big I'll research the Heritage Auction Archives.

mirabela

I think it is helpful to have as many points of data as you can -- coin values tells you where a retail dealer is likely to be pricing a coin (or bargaining down from) this month; graysheet (Coin Dealer Newsletter) can give you sort of a worst-case selling number (figure ~80% of bid for most things, and often you can do bid or better if you sell straight to other collectors); Heritage auction archives can tell you what actual people have actually paid for actual coins, and you get too see the (bad) pictures of the particular coins. For certain kinds of coins, ebay closed auctions are useful too. Same with teletrade.

None of these will tell you what you actually will or should pay to own a particular coin, nor what somebody will or should pay to buy it from you, but when arriving at how much you are willing to pay or how much you are willing to accept I find it helpful to use all of these things.

BTW, welcome to the board. Good place, good people...

MikeInFL

Here's what I do. Get an account at Heritage -- it's free. It has a feature called "My collection". Simply add the coin in question to your collection and you have pricing data from several sources as well as access to archive auction data (including pictures) all in one simple interface. Add to that the greysheet, which you can carry around when not in front of the computer, and you've got all the pricing info you need, IMHO....Mike

numonebuyer

You probably won't like this answer. Pick two or three of the recommendations already given. Pick one or two of your own coins and realistically think about how much you think they are worth. Compare your estimates to the recommendations already given. Whichever sheet or magazine is closest probably tracks with your opinion of coin values.

I personally like the grey sheet, but for really hot coins, the sheet lags behind values just a bit, so I give a little bump.